E.J. Dionne Jr.http://examiner-enterprise.com/rss.xml/451
enThe price Boehner payshttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/price-boehner-pays
WASHINGTON — If you wonder why Congress is so feeble these days that it can’t even find a simple way to pass a transportation bill, look no further than Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., who proffered a little resolution on Tuesday night to oust John Boehner from the speakership.Fri, 31 Jul 2015 17:05:32 +0000288951 at http://examiner-enterprise.comAmericans polarized but ambivalenthttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/americans-polarized-ambivalent
WASHINGTON — So accustomed are we to highlighting the polarized nature of our politics that we often forget how many Americans decline to be painted in bright reds or bright blues. Among us, there are pinks and turquoises and even purples. And these voters will matter a great deal to the elections in 2016 and beyond.Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:08:58 +0000288201 at http://examiner-enterprise.comTrump has the GOP establishment’s numberhttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/trump-has-gop-establishment-s-number
WASHINGTON — The problems that bother us most are the ones we bring on ourselves. This is why Republicans are so out of sorts with Donald Trump. The party created the rough beast it is now trying to slay.Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:09:50 +0000287681 at http://examiner-enterprise.comThe Kasich-Walker debatehttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/kasich-walker-debate
WASHINGTON — Republicans won’t win the presidency in 2016 without making inroads in the Midwest. Happily for the GOP, two Midwestern governors are running for their party’s nomination.Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:05:12 +0000286571 at http://examiner-enterprise.comObama: Reaganite on Iranhttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/obama-reaganite-iran
WASHINGTON — When President Ronald Reagan met Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in November 1985, he whispered to the Soviet leader: “I bet the hard-liners in both our countries are bleeding when we shake hands.”Fri, 17 Jul 2015 17:05:30 +0000285976 at http://examiner-enterprise.comHillary Clinton’s economic bethttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/hillary-clinton-s-economic-bet
WASHINGTON — Will the 2016 presidential campaign continue to be held hostage to Trump-mania and stories about a rope separating Hillary Clinton and journalists at a New Hampshire parade?Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:08:30 +0000285231 at http://examiner-enterprise.comWill Washington blow up again?http://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/will-washington-blow-again
WASHINGTON — When it comes to politics, attention is now being lavished on the 2016 presidential campaign. When it comes to economics, the bright lights are on the Greek crisis. The nation’s capital seems almost sleepy, a relief from the bitterness of manufactured showdowns and an actual shutdown.Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:06:42 +0000284596 at http://examiner-enterprise.comLiberated by gracehttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/liberated-grace
WASHINGTON — For those who see religion as primarily an opiate, African-American Christianity offers a riposte. For those who see Christianity itself as a faith that encourages quiescence and conservatism, the tradition of the black church is a sign of contradiction.Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:08:50 +0000283831 at http://examiner-enterprise.comThe acceleration of historyhttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/acceleration-history
WASHINGTON — Sometimes history speeds up. Rarely in our nation’s 239 years of life has a single week brought such a surge of social change and such a sweeping set of challenges to past assumptions.Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:09:03 +0000282501 at http://examiner-enterprise.comThe right to be free from gunshttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/right-be-free-guns
WASHINGTON — Advocates of a saner approach to guns need a new strategy. We cannot go on like this, wringing our hands in frustration after every tragedy involving firearms. We said “Enough” after Sandy Hook. We thought the moment for action had come. Yet nothing happened. We are saying “Enough” after Charleston. But this time, we don’t even expect anything to happen.Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:05:23 +0000281776 at http://examiner-enterprise.comCharleston and the politics of evasionhttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/charleston-and-politics-evasion
WASHINGTON — We Americans are exceptionally good at evasion when we want to be. Our skills in this sphere are particularly impressive on the matter of race and the subject of guns.Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:05:36 +0000280831 at http://examiner-enterprise.comThe pope, the saint and the climatehttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/pope-saint-and-climate
WASHINGTON — “He was a mystic and a pilgrim who lived in simplicity and in wonderful harmony with God, with others, with nature and with himself. He shows us just how inseparable is the bond between concern for nature, justice for the poor, commitment to society, and interior peace.”Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:05:31 +0000280261 at http://examiner-enterprise.comHillary Clinton and the art of jujitsuhttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/hillary-clinton-and-art-jujitsu
NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton is tied as closely as a candidate can be to two Democratic administrations past. But she intends to wage her presidential campaign around a rich menu of policies and plans that are about the future.Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:10:28 +0000279486 at http://examiner-enterprise.comValuing the familyhttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/valuing-family
WASHINGTON — Between now and the 2016 election, we need to have a searching national debate over family values.Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:05:18 +0000278736 at http://examiner-enterprise.comThe politics of youhttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/politics-you
WASHINGTON — Whenever some new allegation threatened Bill Clinton’s presidential candidacy in 1992, he had a go-to response throughout the campaign.Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:05:17 +0000277836 at http://examiner-enterprise.comThe paradox of fundamentalismhttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/paradox-fundamentalism
WASHINGTON — The rise of fundamentalism and religious ultra-orthodoxy has taken much of the West by surprise. But the shock is not limited to the world’s well-off democracies.Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:10:34 +0000277381 at http://examiner-enterprise.comBernie Sanders: The new St. Nickhttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/bernie-sanders-new-st-nick
WASHINGTON — How is it that Democrats forgot about the joys Santa Claus can bring? How is it that Republicans managed to steal the Santa idea from the party of FDR and never let go?Mon, 01 Jun 2015 13:31:02 +0000276321 at http://examiner-enterprise.comIreland’s ‘social revolution’http://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/ireland-s-social-revolution
BOSTON — Consider the stunned disbelief, perhaps of a somewhat aggressive sort, that would have greeted anyone who might have told a tavern crowd in Dorchester or Southie three decades ago that Ireland would be the first nation in the world to approve gay marriage by popular vote.Fri, 29 May 2015 17:05:52 +0000275716 at http://examiner-enterprise.comThe right’s political correctnesshttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/right-s-political-correctness
WASHINGTON — Scott Walker insists that when he changes his positions, he is not engaged in “flips.”Wed, 27 May 2015 17:13:37 +0000275361 at http://examiner-enterprise.comProgressive frenemieshttp://examiner-enterprise.com/ej-dionne-jr/progressive-frenemies
WASHINGTON — You probably think there is a big struggle over the Democratic Party’s soul and the meaning of progressivism. After all, that’s what the media talk about incessantly, often with a lot of help from the parties involved in the rumble.Fri, 22 May 2015 17:05:41 +0000274286 at http://examiner-enterprise.com